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machines don't fight wars, people do and they use their mind. and you are talking about a war machines to fight the wars and people don't and they don't use their mind. >> on that note i think we want to speak greek heroes both for the troops and for the taxpayers. you spend your lives on this work and i won the end and let the audience to. [applause] >> you can download a pds of version of the pentagon labyrinth for free for the center of defense information website. go to cdi.org. >>> coming up next, booktv presents "after words," an hour-long program will be invited guest hosts to interview authors. acclaim economist dambisa moyo discusses her latest book, "how the west was lost 50 years of economic folly and the storch leases that lie ahead." the best-selling author argues that the flood of economic decisions made by western government have resulted in the skills of economic growth being tipped in favor of what she calls "the emerging world. she talks with libertarian economist dan mitchell. the >> host: my name is to dan mitchell at the cat
machines don't fight wars, people do and they use their mind. and you are talking about a war machines to fight the wars and people don't and they don't use their mind. >> on that note i think we want to speak greek heroes both for the troops and for the taxpayers. you spend your lives on this work and i won the end and let the audience to. [applause] >> you can download a pds of version of the pentagon labyrinth for free for the center of defense information website. go to cdi.org....
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give us the nos shell explanation. >> guest: it's interesting. this bizarre time in society was almost obsessed with what's going on in the east and china and the other places. of course, it's fascinating, but my book is really about the errors made here in the united states and europe. it's a home-grown program on policy nothing to do with china, things like education, all the structural problems like infrastructure and energy problems that have nothing to do with china and essential to get right to make sure the u.s. and european countries are back on track. >> host: it's like a couple different books in one book. there's the story of the decline of the west, the rise of the east, and the basic premise of the lines are going to cross. >> guest: you can argue there's an absolute part for sure talking about the west in isolation and what the issues are going on there, and then, of course, we live in an amazing time of china and other emerging economies have done the unthinkable, moving hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty. of course, th
give us the nos shell explanation. >> guest: it's interesting. this bizarre time in society was almost obsessed with what's going on in the east and china and the other places. of course, it's fascinating, but my book is really about the errors made here in the united states and europe. it's a home-grown program on policy nothing to do with china, things like education, all the structural problems like infrastructure and energy problems that have nothing to do with china and essential to...
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and then to use -- to use u.s. military firepower to destroy and dismantle gadhafi's command and control systems and particularly his surfaced air missile capability. that's very important because nobody is going to be -- everyone wants to minimize the danger to pilots in the air who are enforcing the no-fly zone and taking out those missile sites becomes very important to enable that to happen. >> host: go ahead. >> guest: but that's the initial phase. and that's really starting to wind down. if you look at the number of targets there are, the number of sites there are to hit, i think this operation has been designed so that the u.s. would do the things that the u.s. can uniquely do or bring massive amounts of firepower to it at the beginning and then pave the way for the other countries that really were the ones to advocate strongly diplomatically for the u.n. resolution come in and then sustain a no-fly zone. >> host: if you look at this piece written this morning off on the "washington post," doubts raised by e
and then to use -- to use u.s. military firepower to destroy and dismantle gadhafi's command and control systems and particularly his surfaced air missile capability. that's very important because nobody is going to be -- everyone wants to minimize the danger to pilots in the air who are enforcing the no-fly zone and taking out those missile sites becomes very important to enable that to happen. >> host: go ahead. >> guest: but that's the initial phase. and that's really starting to...
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but i think we are closer now with a better agenda balance to everyday use, consumers use. and in the crime section, very much so. so -- >> are half of your readers women? >> 49% actually, yeah. >> so having women in your journalist ranks reflects your readership as well? >> excuse me. >> having women in your journalist reflects your readers concerns as well? >> yes, absolutely. >> you always agree it's important. what have your companies done specifically? let's start with you to make sure we get there. >> well, at cbc, obviously we have hiring equity practices. all things being equal, the equity piece gets played in terms of preferences. but i think for cbc, the strategy has been to be deliberate. i'll tell you a story. karen levine who is a documentary making, author, and she's a radio producer at cbc, and in the early '90s was the producer of as it happens. which some of you might have heard on npr. she told she sounded too official and too male. the first stop was to her to track how many stories were featuring female and male and begin the discussions with the produce
but i think we are closer now with a better agenda balance to everyday use, consumers use. and in the crime section, very much so. so -- >> are half of your readers women? >> 49% actually, yeah. >> so having women in your journalist ranks reflects your readership as well? >> excuse me. >> having women in your journalist reflects your readers concerns as well? >> yes, absolutely. >> you always agree it's important. what have your companies done...
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they want us to give them a segment of submission. what happened then, it looked like we had to give them the submission check. the same principle now, there is a virtual defeat, plan for syria. there is chaos in the country. under the slogan of reform. this chaos under the title of reform, then they will clash and the defeat of syria will take place. we thwarted this plan in 2005 through popular awareness. today, it is more difficult because their techniques are better, but the popular awareness as we have seen this time around was good enough to react very quickly, but we cannot be complacent. we have reinforced the national popular awareness because that is the real protection, the shield of the syrian nation. there is a major point. we are talking about the changes that took place in the region. we talked about ways, everybody is calling this a way. whether it is a wave, positive or not. if these ways is carrying us or are we carrying it? this wave comes in to say we have to determine whether if it comes, it's an energy, this ener
they want us to give them a segment of submission. what happened then, it looked like we had to give them the submission check. the same principle now, there is a virtual defeat, plan for syria. there is chaos in the country. under the slogan of reform. this chaos under the title of reform, then they will clash and the defeat of syria will take place. we thwarted this plan in 2005 through popular awareness. today, it is more difficult because their techniques are better, but the popular...
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actually the hard work is ahead of us, not behind us. but we are here and we are heading in that direction. it's not simply because there's social media and there's young people. suddenly there's nothing sudden about it. i think we should pay respect due to the hundreds of thousands of arabs who were tortured, jailed, picketed, demonstrated with the hunger strike. why the arab world were not reported, those are the invisible arabs. the hundreds and millions that were displaced by their regimes from iraq to morocco, those -- the torture, the prison, the strike, the activist, the young and the old, the man and the woman, they are the ones who should be thankful. i think in that sense, that's why i'm hopeful and optimistic that's it's going in the right direction. >> okay. thank you. [inaudible] >> everyone, thank you for being here. thank you for taking part in the debate. i wish we had more time. please join me in thanking your panel for tonight.
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both of us -- we worked and i used to work for a financial institution but we also share a common interest and love of history and you obviously do having gone back and taking a look at the period that you've described. and it's very appropriate, i think, as a lead into what i'm going to say today about the relationship between where we are today and where atchison and marshall and truman and others were at the end of world war ii. first, let me apologize for being late but i was actually at a celebration that secretary clinton and michelle obama held for the 100th anniversary of world women's day. and i mention this if part because it was very impressive to see women leaders from all over the world there and it took a little longer because all had very interesting things to say. but prior to this, i was talking to secretary clinton and mrs. obama about this and i was explaining that i was going to give a speech at lunch. and we were sort of reflecting on the role of women in economics. and the point that i try to make in various speeches, when i was at goldman sachs we published a report
both of us -- we worked and i used to work for a financial institution but we also share a common interest and love of history and you obviously do having gone back and taking a look at the period that you've described. and it's very appropriate, i think, as a lead into what i'm going to say today about the relationship between where we are today and where atchison and marshall and truman and others were at the end of world war ii. first, let me apologize for being late but i was actually at a...
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women's organizations have told us they will support us, so i don't know that we're going to get all the money that we want, probably not. we want so much, but at least with the money we have we need to work in a good way, improve our effectiveness and efficiency, but we also have to think and incentivize the rest of the u.n. system to spend more in women because there would never be the money for the u.n. women, and that's why i mentioned we won't replace the rest, and we will be holding accountable all the systems, so u.n. bp has to do more projects for women. you can imagine that in africa the cultural force -- i mean, in the world the average is 60%. in africa and some countries it's almost 85%, but they all only have 2% of the land, and when you see how much money from different privates go to women, it's like 2% too, so we can improve that, direct more to women, and i am really looking forward to -- i would say push for this huge project for women because there -- i mean, women who know how to produce fantastically, but they don't have water supply or if they do have, they make
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used to be the top or near the top, and now we are coming down around 20. but we spent per pupil more than any country i think other than switzerland, so it is not a question of resources. we are not allocating resources very intelligently. was what is wrong with the education system? >> guest: this is a point about it's not about quantity of money or quantum but the quality of education being delivered. and i have to say having spent a lot of time reading about the but also listening to experts who focus of the ejection system it reminds me a lot of the aid sector industry especially to africa and two things in particular. one, people are being rewarded for poor performance. it's quite clear if american education funds are going down and you have these lasting first out policy is getting rid of teachers and regardless of the performance because they came in last to me there seems to be some dislocation. the other thing is that we are as a society essentially being held hostage by the vested interest. the trade unions, the teachers' unions specifically. it'
used to be the top or near the top, and now we are coming down around 20. but we spent per pupil more than any country i think other than switzerland, so it is not a question of resources. we are not allocating resources very intelligently. was what is wrong with the education system? >> guest: this is a point about it's not about quantity of money or quantum but the quality of education being delivered. and i have to say having spent a lot of time reading about the but also listening to...
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actually the hard work is ahead of us, not behind us. but we are here and we are heading in that direction. it's not simply because there's social media and there's young people. suddenly there's nothing sudden about it. i think we should pay respect due to the hundreds of thousands of arabs who were tortured, jailed, picketed, demonstrated with the hunger strike. why the arab world were not reported, those are the invisible arabs. the hundreds and millions that were displaced by their regimes from iraq to morocco, those -- the torture, the prison, the strike, the activist, the young and the old, the man and the woman, they are the ones who should be thankful. i think in that sense, that's why i'm hopeful and optimistic that's it's going in the right direction. >> okay. thank you. [inaudible] >> everyone, thank you for being here. thank you for taking part in the debate. i wish we had more time. please join me in thanking your panel for tonight. [applause] [applause] >> next, administrator lisa jackson testified before the house appropri
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what a backward loss. >> a 15 hour pre nursery condition they give us. they met with me and are concerned about the new guidelines not giving enough flexibility. i talked to my right hon. friend the secretary of education about the problem. >> what we have done is make sure we properly funded the extra hours of education for a 3-year-olds and for the first time introduced that provision for disadvantaged 2-year-olds and it is the big step forward at a time of spending constrained that we have help the poorest families in our country to have a better future. i take of the points you make and make sure she leads by the education secretary to make sure this is introduced in the right way. >> the secretary of state for energy in the newspaper interviewed this week, on the viability of investment in the civil nuclear energy industry. .. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. last night a college in my constituency, i spoke to a bright group of economic students. we discussed that government cannot spend money they do not have. [shouting] >> the students underst
what a backward loss. >> a 15 hour pre nursery condition they give us. they met with me and are concerned about the new guidelines not giving enough flexibility. i talked to my right hon. friend the secretary of education about the problem. >> what we have done is make sure we properly funded the extra hours of education for a 3-year-olds and for the first time introduced that provision for disadvantaged 2-year-olds and it is the big step forward at a time of spending constrained...
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women's organizations have told us they will support us, so i don't know that we're going to get all the money that we want, probably not. we want so much, but at least with the money we have we need to work in a good way, improve our effectiveness and efficiency, but we also have to think and incentivize the rest of the u.n. system to spend more in women because there would never be the money for the u.n. women, and that's why i mentioned we won't replace the rest, and we will be holding accountable all the systems, so u.n. bp has to do more projects for women. you can imagine that in africa the cultural force -- i mean, in the world the average is 60%. in africa and some countries it's almost 85%, but they all only have 2% of the land, and when you see how much money from different privates go to women, it's like 2% too, so we can improve that, direct more to women, and i am really looking forward to -- i would say push for this huge project for women because there -- i mean, women who know how to produce fantastically, but they don't have water supply or if they do have, they make
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and he also used it to somehow claim part for the camelot connection. you're right that kennedy wasn't elected to the following year. i will say he would ever and he acknowledged the error immediately. his campaign team at public a few days after somma that was an error and it was incorrect. he corrected himself even though he was hoping to use the air lift in the kennedy connection in his favor. >> host: one thing to me in a detailed way you've done a lot of original research. let's talk for a moment about research methodology. he didn't just read a lot of books. you talk to a lot of people. tell us who you talk to them by the way, have you speak to people who don't speak english? >> guest: i also read a lot of a lot of books as well. it's been spending weeks and links out there. i went out five times over the course of the year. i did find after four or five weeks i had to come home because it's not easy working in africa. it's hot, dusty, nothing works properly. he traveled very long distances in appalling road conditions and just need to back off an
and he also used it to somehow claim part for the camelot connection. you're right that kennedy wasn't elected to the following year. i will say he would ever and he acknowledged the error immediately. his campaign team at public a few days after somma that was an error and it was incorrect. he corrected himself even though he was hoping to use the air lift in the kennedy connection in his favor. >> host: one thing to me in a detailed way you've done a lot of original research. let's talk...
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it's extremely useful for us to have a point of reference. somebody that we can talk to, somebody we can commission and work from if we require it. if we know, for example, there's a specific issue arising and say can you go out to the range of the agencies and get his reports and get us work brought in for certain time? and that, i think, has been very helpful. i also think it avoids duplication or triple cation. >> how has crisis management are you looking at how crisis management is done within the nsc or within whitehall and thinking of ways to improve it, change it? >> well, i think the nsc was originally conceived as what its name implies, a security council and its first writing task is strategic, not operational. it is not cobra. >> uh-huh. and it's, i think, quite important to hold that distinction between the large scale decisions that fought to be made and the widest set possibilities and to manage a particular situation. so nsc is strategic over tactical in those terms. >> that's roughly how i would describe it and i think my coll
it's extremely useful for us to have a point of reference. somebody that we can talk to, somebody we can commission and work from if we require it. if we know, for example, there's a specific issue arising and say can you go out to the range of the agencies and get his reports and get us work brought in for certain time? and that, i think, has been very helpful. i also think it avoids duplication or triple cation. >> how has crisis management are you looking at how crisis management is...
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we have with us today a person that can hopefully clear us all up on that. david aguilar is the deputy commissioner of the u.s. customs and border patrol, he's a former chief, 31 years with the border patrol. where he's oversaw 2,000 agents, he's received awards for the achievements, especially with desert safeguard. i appreciate you joining us today. it's a very important subject. i wonder if you can start off at 30,000 feet. what does a secure border look like? in this town, there seems to be a lot of disagreement about what it would look like and entail. >> first of all, let me begin by thanking you for the invite to be here this morning. it's a great opportunity to clear up some of the questions that are being asked about the border, what is a secure border, what does it entail? what is it going to take? let me give you a little bit of history before we go into too much depth. a secure border is going to be the ability to have a border that is well managed and mitigate as much of the risk that we know exists along the entirety of that border. 2,000 miles
we have with us today a person that can hopefully clear us all up on that. david aguilar is the deputy commissioner of the u.s. customs and border patrol, he's a former chief, 31 years with the border patrol. where he's oversaw 2,000 agents, he's received awards for the achievements, especially with desert safeguard. i appreciate you joining us today. it's a very important subject. i wonder if you can start off at 30,000 feet. what does a secure border look like? in this town, there seems to be...
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you just use a little bit of et. it. >> and we know that the place that really caused the growth of knowledge of sugar is this wonderful, mysterious school. it was a school in what is now iran. it was the first university -- the first medical college where doctors trained while they healed patients. it had an observatory of the heavens. and here to this day on the palace of justice in tehran there is a sculpture of has rah, the just who was the king in iran in the period when this academy was the world center of knowledge. so people were coming from india, from greece, there were christians there and jews and persians all sharing knowledge about the world and sharing, in particular, knowledge of sugar. sugar was also considered a medicine. they actually gave sugar to people to try to heal some of their ills, although they noticed that it wasn't too good for your teeth. the key next step comes this 600s and 700s a.d.. can anyone remember what, the huge change in the spread of knowledge, the spread of information that
you just use a little bit of et. it. >> and we know that the place that really caused the growth of knowledge of sugar is this wonderful, mysterious school. it was a school in what is now iran. it was the first university -- the first medical college where doctors trained while they healed patients. it had an observatory of the heavens. and here to this day on the palace of justice in tehran there is a sculpture of has rah, the just who was the king in iran in the period when this academy...
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i thank them for working with us. i thank our ranking republican on the committee, the comanager of this measure, senator grassley. his staff, colin davis and rita laurie for their dedication to this effort. i want to thank my friend from utah, senator hatch, for having stuck with this bill for so many years. the two of us have been through more markups and more hearings and more meetings than we'd like to think. and senator kyl who has worked with us both in the hearings but also has helped us put together bipartisan meetings and interest groups and those who have an interest in the patent legislation. i want to extend my personal thanks as well to senator klobuchar of minnesota. she was active during committee consideration and she has helped manage this legislation effort in the senate and she has been outstanding, and of course like so many times the senate's action could not have been accomplished without the hard work of many dedicated staffers and individuals and companies. i'm happy to be on the floor with aar
i thank them for working with us. i thank our ranking republican on the committee, the comanager of this measure, senator grassley. his staff, colin davis and rita laurie for their dedication to this effort. i want to thank my friend from utah, senator hatch, for having stuck with this bill for so many years. the two of us have been through more markups and more hearings and more meetings than we'd like to think. and senator kyl who has worked with us both in the hearings but also has helped us...
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the two of us went around large parts of kenya driving for hours and hours on end. people do have mobile phones they don't all switch them on. so i would have to find these people and stop and ask them and turn to the compound completely out of the blue. this white man suddenly saying president obama's grandmother's brother can i talk to people about this, and i just found university to the dhaka university people were open and friendly and they just loved to sit down and spend hours and are worse sitting under the shade of the tree is talking to people gradually which i then had to join together and of course the independent correlation and collaboration of what you found and a lot of things i was told that aren't in the books because i just couldn't make them stop. i couldn't make them stand up and so we went to the publication. >> host: i think one of the things striking about your conversations for the people who knew barack obama, senior is that to the end of his life they keep referring to him as barry. i say this because to an ordinary american reader it is a
the two of us went around large parts of kenya driving for hours and hours on end. people do have mobile phones they don't all switch them on. so i would have to find these people and stop and ask them and turn to the compound completely out of the blue. this white man suddenly saying president obama's grandmother's brother can i talk to people about this, and i just found university to the dhaka university people were open and friendly and they just loved to sit down and spend hours and are...
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as it has been defined i'm going to use the language used by the plaintiff in the case is whether or not wal-mart fostered a, quote, corporate culture that allows, quote, gender stereotyping. and a corporate practice of giving store managers excess of subjectivity in multiple types of personnel decisions. when you ask a question like that it's pretty easy to see that it's common to everyone here but the answer isn't going to make a lot of difference to these women. in order to prove they themselves were discriminated against the are still going to have to bring forward most of their claims and that means you've held a huge trial for very little progress at all. that's not to say that you couldn't certified the class against wal-mart. very briefly, wal-mart has 41 different retail divisions all of which are staffed by your own vice president who makes the policy. you could become a class-action in to 41 of these. right now i think the damages have been put at roughly a billion dollars for the class, for the forced of a billion and still enough to make a lot of lawyers sulfate systole
as it has been defined i'm going to use the language used by the plaintiff in the case is whether or not wal-mart fostered a, quote, corporate culture that allows, quote, gender stereotyping. and a corporate practice of giving store managers excess of subjectivity in multiple types of personnel decisions. when you ask a question like that it's pretty easy to see that it's common to everyone here but the answer isn't going to make a lot of difference to these women. in order to prove they...
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you can also send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or send us a tweet, twitter.com/booktv. next call for professor maier comes from william in manhattan beach, california. william, thanks for holding. you're on the air. >> caller: thank you. and, professor maier, and i want to know how you say your name, that's first. [laughter] you're a national treasure, thank you, madam. >> guest: well, thank you, thank you. i say maier because i inherited the pronunciation from the family of my husband to whom i will soon be married for 50 years. so, you know, at this point it would seem to me to change the pronunciation would be an act of hostility. however, i will say i answer to meyer as well, and two of my daughters have chosen to pronounce it meyer, so it gets a little confusing in this family. >> caller: maier it is, and i have two quick questions. on booktv a year or two ago i saw a gentleman talking about his book that put the american revolution as much on the -- [inaudible] and the constitution, he put it in perspective worldwide and said that the american revolution was small
you can also send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or send us a tweet, twitter.com/booktv. next call for professor maier comes from william in manhattan beach, california. william, thanks for holding. you're on the air. >> caller: thank you. and, professor maier, and i want to know how you say your name, that's first. [laughter] you're a national treasure, thank you, madam. >> guest: well, thank you, thank you. i say maier because i inherited the pronunciation from the family of my...
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-- comparing us with agrees. now, the right honorable gentleman makes an interesting point. at what point in our history did we turn over our economy to the ratings agencies? at what point did we say to ourselves, it's only a rating agencies when the rating agencies call you, and they all have a fix -- they have a panic. you're not to reduce our ratings, are you? mr. speaker, why would -- why did we as a nation state give our economy over to a ratings agency to moody's, to standard & poor's? where was the chancellor of the exchequer who said, no, i'm not going to do that. and in relation to the ratings agencies. the ratings agencies accepted the deficit reduction plan of a labour government. they were happy with the four-year program. it was this particular government who fell back to the age of the noble lords and to the -- john major referred to my right honorable member. it's not working. it's not -- [laughter] >> it's not working. and that was the two points. the honorable gentleman gave away one i'm not sure
-- comparing us with agrees. now, the right honorable gentleman makes an interesting point. at what point in our history did we turn over our economy to the ratings agencies? at what point did we say to ourselves, it's only a rating agencies when the rating agencies call you, and they all have a fix -- they have a panic. you're not to reduce our ratings, are you? mr. speaker, why would -- why did we as a nation state give our economy over to a ratings agency to moody's, to standard &...
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back to us. put it somewhere else. but obama was weirdly insistent and the about us is to the british ambassador and it's in a sense of british soil. the normal theories of understanding obama can't make sense of this. obama is a progressive. he's a leftist even if he's a socialist, so what? why do this? interestingly, it was winston churchill as you know who was the prime minister of britain re-elected in world war ii after the '50s who directed british special troops to go to kenya and locked up every able bodied man and not only was barack obama, sr., at one point jailed but the grandfather also tortured. so here's my point, is it possible that this churchill episode otherwise unexplicable can be understood by looking at this family history that you sought to early document in this book? >> what you didn't mention, i think, president obama replaced the statue of churchill with that of abraham lincoln who was his great hero and to me it's entirely understandable that a american president -- tha
back to us. put it somewhere else. but obama was weirdly insistent and the about us is to the british ambassador and it's in a sense of british soil. the normal theories of understanding obama can't make sense of this. obama is a progressive. he's a leftist even if he's a socialist, so what? why do this? interestingly, it was winston churchill as you know who was the prime minister of britain re-elected in world war ii after the '50s who directed british special troops to go to kenya and locked...
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i don't use that language actually. i don't use antifederalists unless the people described accepted it or it appears in a quotation because it suggests there were parties. there were no parties. national parties did emerge in the 1790s out of congress first of all in divisions over hamilton's financial plan and over foreign policy, and here jefferson and madison became the leaders of what became known as the jefferson republican party, and they opposed the centralizing trend of the washington administration particularly in so far as washington being influenced by hamilton, and, of course, they didn't like john adams and his administration either, so you did get the beginning of a kind of party politics there. then they kind of die off by the 1820s, and emerge again, so you have the jacksonian democrats and what was known as the wig party, and they fall apart in the 1850s when you get the new republican party of the lincoln who opposes the old democratic party, and those actually were some tendencies still with us. it's
i don't use that language actually. i don't use antifederalists unless the people described accepted it or it appears in a quotation because it suggests there were parties. there were no parties. national parties did emerge in the 1790s out of congress first of all in divisions over hamilton's financial plan and over foreign policy, and here jefferson and madison became the leaders of what became known as the jefferson republican party, and they opposed the centralizing trend of the washington...
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>> we are used to people trying to tell us -- we should have a more sophisticated population of agitated people that we don't take seriously. we take these things with a grain of salt and with some discretion. i am not sure i see this as a threat to participatory democracy that one might charge, the influence of corporations with representative institutions, lobby and another issue to discuss. they had no real experience at this. all we can do is put words in their mouth. they repair concern with corruption. turtle having private interests in representative institution. no doubt they care about that. with a particular form that occurs in our day, most often a person says or what they think. is another question of their politics being put into the mouths of people who never understood the situation. >> host: this is booktv's index program. we are live. barbara in seattle. you are on with pauline maier. >> caller: what would washington have wanted the revolutionary war without thomas paine's common sense? >> guest: common sense called for independence. that certainly was important. i am no
>> we are used to people trying to tell us -- we should have a more sophisticated population of agitated people that we don't take seriously. we take these things with a grain of salt and with some discretion. i am not sure i see this as a threat to participatory democracy that one might charge, the influence of corporations with representative institutions, lobby and another issue to discuss. they had no real experience at this. all we can do is put words in their mouth. they repair...
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we have with us today a person to clear us all up on that. david aguilar is the depp tigs commission of u.s. border patrol, 31 years with the border patrol. he oversaw 2,000 agents. he's received awards for achievement, especially with desert tucson. i wanted you to start from 30,000 feet. what does a secure border look like? in this town, there's a lot of disagreement on that on what it looks like and entails. >> first of all, thank you for the invite to be here. it's a great opportunity. i think to clear up some of the questions that are being asked about the border, what is the secure border, what does it entail, and what is it going to take. let me just give you a little of history, before we go into too much depth on this. a secure border is the ability to have a border that's well-managed and mitigate as much of the risk we know exists on that border. just what does that mean? that means within certain areas of the border, organized areas of operation, we have a need to know exactly what is happening because of the possibility and the p
we have with us today a person to clear us all up on that. david aguilar is the depp tigs commission of u.s. border patrol, 31 years with the border patrol. he oversaw 2,000 agents. he's received awards for achievement, especially with desert tucson. i wanted you to start from 30,000 feet. what does a secure border look like? in this town, there's a lot of disagreement on that on what it looks like and entails. >> first of all, thank you for the invite to be here. it's a great...
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thank you for joining us. jared, start with a kind of can you give us an overview. what is going on with housing now? >> first of all, there are many basketball players in this administration who are much, much better than me. let's correct that for the record. i play with the president a couple of times and he can get around me with absolutely no problem. but he is a lot younger than i am. i would say, of, i'm just going to speak broadly as jim asked for a few minutes. we'll have a discussion. i know we're going to have time for your questions as well. of all the issues i deal with at the white house, homeownership is one that evokes some of the strongest emotions and i think you can feel some of that if you read, i thought very readable supplement that the "national journal" did on this issue. obviously unemployment does too but they're intimately related. a primary cause of the great recession and elevated unemployment rate was the housing bubble, a massive asset bubble inflated by a massive failure of the system of housing finance both private and public. and ye
thank you for joining us. jared, start with a kind of can you give us an overview. what is going on with housing now? >> first of all, there are many basketball players in this administration who are much, much better than me. let's correct that for the record. i play with the president a couple of times and he can get around me with absolutely no problem. but he is a lot younger than i am. i would say, of, i'm just going to speak broadly as jim asked for a few minutes. we'll have a...
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let us discuss, let us discuss it. i start my presentation with mention united nations scientific committee latest book. they openly declare this special declaration. they decline to discuss any consequences at any account of victims because of circumstances. they avoid the discussion. they avoid. [speaking russian] >> translator: what i should mention, by all means. [speaking russian] >> translator: why are they keeping silent? [speaking russian] >> translator: one of the reasons is that there exists an agreement between world health organization and international atomic -- [inaudible] [speaking russian] >> translator: it was made in 1959. [speaking russian] >> translator: agencies signed an agreement according to -- [speaking russian] >> translator: the world health organization -- [speaking russian] >> translator: has no right to publish anything -- [speaking russian] >> translator: anything against the atomic power without consulting first the nuclear scientists. [speaking russian] >> translator: three years ago i
let us discuss, let us discuss it. i start my presentation with mention united nations scientific committee latest book. they openly declare this special declaration. they decline to discuss any consequences at any account of victims because of circumstances. they avoid the discussion. they avoid. [speaking russian] >> translator: what i should mention, by all means. [speaking russian] >> translator: why are they keeping silent? [speaking russian] >> translator: one of the...
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the british attempt to use them. and so in the end there were certainly little people involved in the mau mau insurrection but their numbers were very small. >> host: so he might've been set up and someone or someone basically falsely accused him. let me ask you, he comes home. he's scarred. sarah obama says he essentially became an old man during captivity. i want your opinion on a sort of interesting hypothesis here. one that i think brings all of this to light. when president obama came in to the white house, he noted that in the oval office it was a bust, a statue of winston churchill. it was reported both in britain and america that this unknown obama and he wanted to bust return. the british, a little chagrined because of a long-term special relationship that to obama, don't get it back to us. put it somewhere else. but obama sort of weirdly insistent and the buzz today is in the home of the british ambassador in washington, d.c.. it is innocent on british soil. for many americans the normal areas of understati
the british attempt to use them. and so in the end there were certainly little people involved in the mau mau insurrection but their numbers were very small. >> host: so he might've been set up and someone or someone basically falsely accused him. let me ask you, he comes home. he's scarred. sarah obama says he essentially became an old man during captivity. i want your opinion on a sort of interesting hypothesis here. one that i think brings all of this to light. when president obama...
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that surprised us, frankly. there is an attempt to try to organize this better and a recognition that this is a real problem. we will benefit from your recommendations greatly, and a look forward to them. >> they need operational responsibility. >> that is the problem. interestingly enough, and this now goes back a while, we had a hearing here maybe two years ago now. it's somewhat dated, but a hearing with some leaders of the muslim american community. we asked, is there any agency of the federal government that has gone out reach to your community which has done the most? to me the surprising answer we got was, yes, the fbi through its state offices had been reaching out quite a lot and had some communication the nypd sets the standard. it has committed -- not inexpensive, labor intensive. they have committed a lot, maybe because they were so struck, traumatized by 9/11 they have committed a lot of resources and excellent communication with the muslim american community. the lapd does a great job, but there ar
that surprised us, frankly. there is an attempt to try to organize this better and a recognition that this is a real problem. we will benefit from your recommendations greatly, and a look forward to them. >> they need operational responsibility. >> that is the problem. interestingly enough, and this now goes back a while, we had a hearing here maybe two years ago now. it's somewhat dated, but a hearing with some leaders of the muslim american community. we asked, is there any agency...
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it has taken us 20 years working with us. so don't forget about that. >> them are still not satisfied. >> which you have to find a way to work this out. >> thank you also much. i was a fascinating panel. i hope you have things you cannot take back to your organizations. barbara, sylvia, caroline, thank you for joining me up your. [applause] [inaudible conversations]
it has taken us 20 years working with us. so don't forget about that. >> them are still not satisfied. >> which you have to find a way to work this out. >> thank you also much. i was a fascinating panel. i hope you have things you cannot take back to your organizations. barbara, sylvia, caroline, thank you for joining me up your. [applause] [inaudible conversations]
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did her publisher want -- use said her name wasn't always associated with the books. she didn't want her name on the book. but from commercial standpoint, did the publisher want her name on the book? >> i think they would have liked her name on the look but they didn't press her, they didn't press her on that and i didn't come across anybody asking her on the publisher's part, on the publisher's point of view to actually do it. oftentimes, her authors would say jackie can i please acknowledge you at least? because she did contribute to the book itself. and oftentimes, they said please, don't put me in the acknowledgement. peter, for example, want to put in the three golden keys, this book which was a profitable book actually a children's book about prague, he wanted her in the college and she said no, but he drew a little picture of his daughter in a cat costume same thing he for the dream, j.o.. so she's there. [laughter] >> one more question. >> actually, there's one right there. did you get cooperation or discussion with family members? >> the head of doubleday --
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they are reasonably well off and elizabeth johnston's father is able to sell off the sleeves and use the proceeds to move on in their case to britain. britain will detect a theme in all these places. they were not real happy in the places the end of going and britain was no exception. the johnstons and unsettling because william johnston of the medical students and at that time edwin bird had the best medical school so they go there. he finishes his medical training but like many of the refugees they find the opportunities for employment are not so great. there's already a lot of professionals in britain and they don't miss a surly need the colonial upstarts' to fill in the ranks so they move on again under the patronage of the war time supporter of williams to jamaica and the last part of the story that i will tell you about in a little more depth is their experience in jamaica which at the time was the richest colony in the british empire and seen on the fees' a an alluring place for the refugees. its beauty could take your breath away from the sparkling surface of the water, swept
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so does the use of addictive substances? or crippling depression or debilitating disease that leaves us unable to work. now, under the government's logic the existence of those potential calamities would seem to justify have congress enact an insurance purchase requirement. aflac kind of it goes -- if you lose your job, you're sick they're going to pay for food and rent and all the necessities of life. so we can all have a comprehensive aflac to cover us. and make sure there's no cost shifting. but you know what? you don't need to go into those other markets to demonstrate the silliness, absurdity of a government's uniqueness arguments. i would just stick with the health care market for a second. the government's definition is so broad and capacious and for all the medical goods and services, products and all the arrangements can be used to pay them. that market alone can sustain an infinite number of mandates on the government. why is that? well, the proponents of obamacare and its predecessors have often justified this exe
so does the use of addictive substances? or crippling depression or debilitating disease that leaves us unable to work. now, under the government's logic the existence of those potential calamities would seem to justify have congress enact an insurance purchase requirement. aflac kind of it goes -- if you lose your job, you're sick they're going to pay for food and rent and all the necessities of life. so we can all have a comprehensive aflac to cover us. and make sure there's no cost shifting....
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it is used for us-based contractors were as jcc has issues for non-us contractors? >> when requested we uploaded these are going to pcl input requirements, typically every 12 months for contracts with performs in excess of one year, and at the end of every contract. dcma afghanistan inputting data into c. par four large -- logcap iv. contingency cmo is also provided by monthly performance evaluation port reports based on monthly audits, focusing on toward the evaluation criteria, technical costs and management. for the logcap iii contract and a logcap iv contract in afghanistan and kuwait. these oddities inputs from dcma quality assurance represent as an appointed contracting officer representatives. ecma corrective action requests, administered contracting officers, customers, usually the camp of mayors, and the contractors of self-assessment. the tvs are compiled into an award field evaluation board every six months and embraced to the theater logcap pm representative. ecma also provides a weekly report on cars issued for the previous 90 days to the logcap program
it is used for us-based contractors were as jcc has issues for non-us contractors? >> when requested we uploaded these are going to pcl input requirements, typically every 12 months for contracts with performs in excess of one year, and at the end of every contract. dcma afghanistan inputting data into c. par four large -- logcap iv. contingency cmo is also provided by monthly performance evaluation port reports based on monthly audits, focusing on toward the evaluation criteria,...
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helps us grow and what doesn't help us grow? is it really true that american senators have the inability to be able to agree as to where the benefit comes to the economy and the multiplie multiplier with ro science research or technology research or other kinds of things that we can excite in the private sector? completely absent from this debate is an honest discussion of what actions only the government is actually equipped to take in order to bolster our global competitiveness. every c.e.o. in america knows that there are some things that, in fact, only the government can do. look at president eisenhower's national interstate highway system in the 1950's. by today's standards, you couldn't build it. it wouldn't happen by today's standards. but the fact is that more than 30% or 40%, maybe 50% of america's productivity came as a consequence -- increases came as a consequence of the building of the interstate highway system, not to mention billions of dollars' worth of spinoff jobs and tax revenues to our communities. we're stil
helps us grow and what doesn't help us grow? is it really true that american senators have the inability to be able to agree as to where the benefit comes to the economy and the multiplie multiplier with ro science research or technology research or other kinds of things that we can excite in the private sector? completely absent from this debate is an honest discussion of what actions only the government is actually equipped to take in order to bolster our global competitiveness. every c.e.o....
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here is our oil, take us, tell us how much you've taken. if you don't think that's the right way to do business, congress and the administration is treating taxpayers if they have a fiduciary responsibility to manage assets. we do support the markey fix, but we also worked ghostly with mr. chairman issa. i think there's a real potential for a bipartisan solution on this and from the taxpayers do this to the over. >> thank you. >> i think the gentleman. >> for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for the presentations from the entire board. mr. dodaro, i didn't know for sure, but i was listening to the language and i thought he picked up the pittsburgh and i'm glad to see -- is jim dodaro your brother clerics okay, it's the pittsburgh and the boys. listen, thank you for your presentation today. i come to this committee with a background that includes time as united states attorney and in that capacity came in just after september 11 when we were dealing with issues of terrorism. we share responsibilities and other committe
here is our oil, take us, tell us how much you've taken. if you don't think that's the right way to do business, congress and the administration is treating taxpayers if they have a fiduciary responsibility to manage assets. we do support the markey fix, but we also worked ghostly with mr. chairman issa. i think there's a real potential for a bipartisan solution on this and from the taxpayers do this to the over. >> thank you. >> i think the gentleman. >> for five minutes....
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all of us. so i think that is the only type in the country. no other big mayors from big cities have meetings. we have meetings every four months and i am just a member, one of the founding members but a member today and i participate with other mayors rum the counties, all the counties around here, which is really important for us. a mayor from aurora and rockford in peoria come down and some from milwaukee and some of the indiana mayors, were to work with us on many issues so we are very proud of that. at the same time i believe the success of chicago has been a public-private partnership. you can go to hospitals, museums the business committee has been very very helpful in all aspects of the city and it really helps us tremendously to have the business community supporting us. that doesn't mean corporate headquarters or operations, local and federal and local taxes and other things, but that has been a key the key and no other city has it. see is more democrat been the business community so h
all of us. so i think that is the only type in the country. no other big mayors from big cities have meetings. we have meetings every four months and i am just a member, one of the founding members but a member today and i participate with other mayors rum the counties, all the counties around here, which is really important for us. a mayor from aurora and rockford in peoria come down and some from milwaukee and some of the indiana mayors, were to work with us on many issues so we are very...
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what do you want us to do now? all of them were united to making sure what was happening on time in july and the outcome of this and all of us in the campaign for that. so the general unity of all political parties were there. we have different views and never advocate a multi-party system, not one system. >> i have a question here in the center. >> good afternoon. thank you for coming. i am poindexter and spent the last four years living and working in west africa, so the issue of aid always comes up and you mention the marshall plan so i wanted to get a sense of your ambassador ezekiel lol gatkuoth the anti a argument. there are arguments to create a cycle of dependency that kills entrepreneurship if you have a great phone lines that you do that entrepreneurs won't be able to work there and the marshall plan only works in countries where there are well-established institutions and that has been the case history. comment on those criticisms. .. >> i think the vision we are having is help us that we can help oursel
what do you want us to do now? all of them were united to making sure what was happening on time in july and the outcome of this and all of us in the campaign for that. so the general unity of all political parties were there. we have different views and never advocate a multi-party system, not one system. >> i have a question here in the center. >> good afternoon. thank you for coming. i am poindexter and spent the last four years living and working in west africa, so the issue of...
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send us an e-mail. treat us at twitter. here is a look at a few of the upcoming book fairs and festivals from around the country. bring you coverage of the virginia festival of the book, several events this week. the entire festival will air on book tv next weekend. is it booked tv for a complete schedule. the 20th albuquerque and antiquarian book will take place. rare books, maps, and prints will be available for viewing and purchase. there will also be a silent auction of library surplus items. also on the first and second of april, the empire state but festival. this new war -- new york library has to the event will honor several writers. on april 9th book tv will be live from the ninth annual annapolis boat festival in annapolis maryland providing coverage of several nonfiction . is there a book festival happening near yu
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this has been a useful briefing for us, and we appreciate it. if additional issues come to your attention, please let us know and we'll try to inform the full committee on all of those as well. thank you. >> thank you, senator. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ... >>> at least 42 disease clusters have occurred in 13 u.s. states since 1976 according to a report by the natural resources defense council. the disease cluster is a location that shows a statistically high incident of an illness. the senate environment committee today looked into the issue. this 90 minute hearing is chaired by california democrat barbara boxer. >> the hearing will come to order. i would like to begin by thanking our witnesses for coming here today. you traveled long distances and we are very appreciative of that. in particular, i want to welcome the trevor schaefer, a brave young man who has overcome so much in his life already and i met him when he was much younger. he beat cancer that he got when he was just a child, and he is inspiring a lot of pe
this has been a useful briefing for us, and we appreciate it. if additional issues come to your attention, please let us know and we'll try to inform the full committee on all of those as well. thank you. >> thank you, senator. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ... >>> at least 42 disease clusters have occurred in 13 u.s. states since 1976 according to a report by the natural resources defense council. the disease cluster is a location that shows a statistically...
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tell us, what our states tell us, what our mayors tell us. forever more, they are repealing the clean air act as it relates to carbon pollutionment. -- pollution. outrageous, we have to beat it. we must beat it. it is so bad. it goes against the supreme court decision and, by the way, there will be lawsuits up the witwazoo if it ever became law. the supreme court said if we find scientists that carbon pollution is dangerous, we have to regulate it. guess what? the scientists found that carbon pollution is dangerous. the e.p.a. is ready to act i think in a judicious way, they're not going after farms or small business. that's not good enough. these special interests who took this huge ad today standing against the -- beautiful ad. it looks element environmental. green. this isn't green. it's dirty. dirty air. that's what this ad stands for, dirty air. a lot of people didn't want me to come back here because they knew i'd come here and tell the truth about this. but i'm here. i'm going to tell the truth every day every way because i love my gra
tell us, what our states tell us, what our mayors tell us. forever more, they are repealing the clean air act as it relates to carbon pollutionment. -- pollution. outrageous, we have to beat it. we must beat it. it is so bad. it goes against the supreme court decision and, by the way, there will be lawsuits up the witwazoo if it ever became law. the supreme court said if we find scientists that carbon pollution is dangerous, we have to regulate it. guess what? the scientists found that carbon...
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now we have 88 of us. now, i'll skip over her time as a broadcaster and all the things she did that senator mikulski talked about, her work in human rights. but i want to just conclude with her brave, brave, brave spirit as she faced multiple mil my my, the bone cancer that ultimately took her life. and i want to do it in this context. i have a good friend now whose name is robin, and her mother is battling the same kind of cancer that geri was battling. and as we know, geri was given four or five years and went on, thank god, for much longer. this woman lives far away from her daughter, robin, and when geri passed, she called her and she said, i need to see you. will you come out and stay with me as i battle this cancer? and -- and robin said, well, what is it, mom, you're doing great? and she said, we just lost geri and she was the one who kept my heart and soul together and my spirits up and i knew she was there battling. and now that i've lost her, she said, i've lost her, i don't know, i feel a hole,
now we have 88 of us. now, i'll skip over her time as a broadcaster and all the things she did that senator mikulski talked about, her work in human rights. but i want to just conclude with her brave, brave, brave spirit as she faced multiple mil my my, the bone cancer that ultimately took her life. and i want to do it in this context. i have a good friend now whose name is robin, and her mother is battling the same kind of cancer that geri was battling. and as we know, geri was given four or...
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so they need to sit and talk us to. let us reason together. they cut $100 billion off the president's budget. we've already cut -- we've already cut $40 million. let's meet in the middle. but let's not threaten as many as a million jobs. moody's estimate it would destroy 700 millio,000 jobs. it's inconceivable, after they ran around in this last election saying, where are the jobs, where are the jobs -- that's all i heard -- and it was a good point. but it's inconceivable they would turn their backs on jobs and now focus on the deficit, as if that's the only issue we have to worry about. again, when the president took office, president obama, the economy was heading off a clirvetion and i'll never forget -- was heading off a cliff, and i'll never forget hank paulson looking straight into my eyes -- and that was hard because he was a 7 feet tall and i'm a little over five feet -- senator, capital tailism is on the -- capitalism is on the brink of collapse. i remember back to the debates then, one of my republican colleagues suggested nationaliz
so they need to sit and talk us to. let us reason together. they cut $100 billion off the president's budget. we've already cut -- we've already cut $40 million. let's meet in the middle. but let's not threaten as many as a million jobs. moody's estimate it would destroy 700 millio,000 jobs. it's inconceivable, after they ran around in this last election saying, where are the jobs, where are the jobs -- that's all i heard -- and it was a good point. but it's inconceivable they would turn their...
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libya, all of us are muslim. all of us are sunnis. all of us, we are -- [inaudible] no faction in libya. they are libyans. they are patriots. they are fighters. and in jihad against the italians, their sacrifice are quite real. and we are quite proud of them. they are our brothers. no difference between someone from different cities, we are united. we are one tribe, the tribe of libya. [applause] >> there is one -- yes. just to clarify, just to add to it, after the liberation of the cities in libya, most of the cities have established civilian governing bodies. these civilian governing bodies are made of lawyers, of judges, are made of the youth of the movement, and all of them are working now even though in the short period they have shown the people when the people govern themselves really, not as the slogans they used to do, they have done a better job, and the people have seen a difference. all the material that we see sometimes in the western press, it's really amazing that people don't know what's going on in libya. they speak o
libya, all of us are muslim. all of us are sunnis. all of us, we are -- [inaudible] no faction in libya. they are libyans. they are patriots. they are fighters. and in jihad against the italians, their sacrifice are quite real. and we are quite proud of them. they are our brothers. no difference between someone from different cities, we are united. we are one tribe, the tribe of libya. [applause] >> there is one -- yes. just to clarify, just to add to it, after the liberation of the...
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we are used to that. we should have a more sophisticated population now, of educated people and don't take all of this very seriously. i mean, we take these with a grain of salt and discretion and i'm not sure i see that this is as much of a threat to participatory democracy as we would -- one might charge the influence of corporations, i think, are represented in institutions, maybe and of lobbying, maybe -- another issue, to discuss. and, this one -- you ask what the 18th century would have thought and they had to real experience of this, so, all we can do is put words in their mouths and though they were very concerned with corruption, with having private interests and representative institution, there is no doubt they cared about that and what they would think of the particular form that occurs in our day, most often, a person says what they think, it is another question of their politics being put en to the mouths of people who never understood the situation we face. >> book tv's in-depth program, we
we are used to that. we should have a more sophisticated population now, of educated people and don't take all of this very seriously. i mean, we take these with a grain of salt and discretion and i'm not sure i see that this is as much of a threat to participatory democracy as we would -- one might charge the influence of corporations, i think, are represented in institutions, maybe and of lobbying, maybe -- another issue, to discuss. and, this one -- you ask what the 18th century would have...
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he's quitting us -- visiting us from qatar. sitting to my right is is -- wee thinking of the diplomat actually who has had a long career which is the modern leading business associations in the country. to my immediate left, jackie kameel who is the director of the civil society in egypt. to her left is awais sufi, and finally at the far end of the table is awais sufi who is -- sorry, amira maaty who is in the international endowment for democracy. quite a range of expertise and interest on the panel. we'll begin with asking each of the panelist to make five minutes of remarks according to their own interest and themes. let me begin then with jackie kameel to my immediate left. >> hi, everyone. i speak about expectations of the civil society and the needs that would actually help us do a better job in the new egypt. so basically the role of the civil society is for me is identifying gaps and issues and trying to come up with solutions to help close the gaps or sort them. for example, in the area of job creation and employment,
he's quitting us -- visiting us from qatar. sitting to my right is is -- wee thinking of the diplomat actually who has had a long career which is the modern leading business associations in the country. to my immediate left, jackie kameel who is the director of the civil society in egypt. to her left is awais sufi, and finally at the far end of the table is awais sufi who is -- sorry, amira maaty who is in the international endowment for democracy. quite a range of expertise and interest on the...
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we continue to use it. when people talk about alternative energy options, talking about hydroelectric, solar wind, biofuels, all this, 7% of the america's energy, total, energy consumption comes from what is called alternative fuels areas. 9% of our energy is coal, natural gas and oil -- 93%. people talk about ramp up more of alternative energy options to provide for the other part they realize we're ramped up in a lost areas. hydroelectric is our top producer of energy that is not coal, natural gas or oil. so, continue to do that but you only have so many streams in places you can put a dam to produce that kind of energy. it is great energy. it is clean energy. we should continue to use that. for the foreseeable future we'll be using traditional fuels. you can't shut off oil, natural gas and coal and say we're not going to do those anymore. we're going to use all biofuels or we'll use all wind and solar. 1% of our energy is coming from solar or wind that is not enough to actually fuel america. >> host: jim
we continue to use it. when people talk about alternative energy options, talking about hydroelectric, solar wind, biofuels, all this, 7% of the america's energy, total, energy consumption comes from what is called alternative fuels areas. 9% of our energy is coal, natural gas and oil -- 93%. people talk about ramp up more of alternative energy options to provide for the other part they realize we're ramped up in a lost areas. hydroelectric is our top producer of energy that is not coal,...
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i would do it by using egyptian, jordanian ground forces as advisers with the rebels, using all western air power as decisively as power. a no-fly zone does not just mean airplanes. i think this is linguistically stupid. i have never seen a flying tank. [laughter] if they want to create a suppressions own to defeat the libyan military, then the honest and say that is what we're doing. it is a totally different process. once you get involved, i believe you get involved decisively. you win quickly and minimize casualties. you get it over quickly. you say you are getting rid of gaddafi because you want his military to get up every morning to the simple message that he is gone. [applause] if you are of the libyan military and wondering if the americans are serious and whether you can hold out -- you watch our white house arguing. i want to say to the things about foreign policy. we have to risk the lives of young americans. we have to have the courage to tell the truth about who is trying to kill us. it is not a random behavior. it is radical islamists motivated by deep belief against our s
i would do it by using egyptian, jordanian ground forces as advisers with the rebels, using all western air power as decisively as power. a no-fly zone does not just mean airplanes. i think this is linguistically stupid. i have never seen a flying tank. [laughter] if they want to create a suppressions own to defeat the libyan military, then the honest and say that is what we're doing. it is a totally different process. once you get involved, i believe you get involved decisively. you win...
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the problem is that democrats don't want us to use the energy we have. it's enough to make you wonder whether anybody in the white house has driven by a gas station lately. no, the crisis we face is immediate and it requires immediate action. and that's why republicans have come up with two concrete proposals that will have a positive practical effect, two things we can do to give americans relief, job creators a reason to hire and make all of us less dependent on foreign sources of oil. first, let's increase american energy production by cutting the red tape and opening up areas that the administration has either temporarily blocked, stalled, or closed off to production. and let's block any new regulations that will drive up production costs for energy, including the administration's proposed new e.p.a. regulations on carbon emissions. the first proposal is guaranteed -- guaranteed -- to create jobs by unlocking our energy resources. the second has been described as one of the best proposals for growth and job creation to make it on to the senate docket
the problem is that democrats don't want us to use the energy we have. it's enough to make you wonder whether anybody in the white house has driven by a gas station lately. no, the crisis we face is immediate and it requires immediate action. and that's why republicans have come up with two concrete proposals that will have a positive practical effect, two things we can do to give americans relief, job creators a reason to hire and make all of us less dependent on foreign sources of oil. first,...